Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray orange and brown spice chest in Art History from the

in Art History from the University of Iowa

and a Tred Spivey is listed as well)

with shiny salt glazes

Robert Sheridan's mother on the back of it: "Bob won third prize for this picture June 1945 when in 2a2 at Brooklyn prep

Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray orange and brown spice chest in Art History from theIf not made during wartime, this emphatically handmade ashtray at least has a very strong make do trench art sensibility, and the brass looks very much to me like melted down shell casings. I really love its fat walled, amoeba like shape, and then these shiny silver shapes (aluminum I believe, and revealed to be one plate when turned over) that read a bit like landmasses with a river running through. Really an excellent object I think, perfect on the